Nature By NameSign inCreate an account

Insects › Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees

Regular Mining Bee

Andrena regularis

Learn Regular Mining Bee freeHow it works
Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) mantises, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

20 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

See all photosAdd a photo

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 16, February 16, March 21, April 37, May 64, June 31, July 24, August 22, September 25, October 23, November 16, December 15.
United States669
New York310
Canada250
Ontario179
Vermont91
Massachusetts71
New Hampshire65
Pennsylvania42
Maine28
Connecticut27

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • StingingCan deliver a painful stingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyMiner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees · Andrenidae
GenusMining Bees · Andrena

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Regular Mining Bee with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

Create a free accountHow it works